Since 2004, six women have filed sexual harassment complaints against the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s executive director, Carl R. Greene.  As a result, Greene has been suspended from his job and, according to his attorney, is currently at a “medical treatment facility.”

Carl R. Greene

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Three of the four earlier complaints have been settled with cash payments by PHA’s insurance carrier, and a fourth is under negotiation. The total cost could exceed $900,000.

Greene was suspended because the board never knew of the complaints and because the first three payments, for $648,000, were never disclosed to it. A settlement for $250,000 had been tentatively agreed to last month in a complaint filed by Elizabeth Helm, a 29-year-old interior designer.

Greene is no stranger to sexual harassment accusations.  The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “Greene was hired to head PHA in 1998 amid allegations that he had sexually harassed an employee of a Detroit housing commission that he headed. That complaint was resolved with a settlement under which the complainant was paid money and Greene admitted no wrongdoing.”

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Jose Vasquez

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that ABM Industries, Inc., together with two of its subsidiaries, ABM Janitorial Services, Inc. and ABM Janitorial Services Northern California, Inc. will pay $5.8 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit that was filed on behalf of 21 Hispanic female janitorial workers. 

The women claimed that they were sexually harassed and assaulted on an ongoing basis by 14 male bosses and coworkers in the Fresno, Bakersfield and Visalia areas of California’s Central Valley region.  One of the ABM bosses named in the lawsuit is Jose Vasquez, a convicted rapist who is profiled on the California Registered Sex Offender website. 

According to the complaint:

JOSE VASQUEZ was hired by ABM INC despite the fact that ABM INC supervisors had contemporaneous express knowledge of JOSE VASQUEZ’s criminal background. ABM INC and its supervisors had contemporaneous express knowledge of JOSE VASQUEZ’s criminal background when assigning JOSE VASQUEZ to supervise INTERVENOR PLAINTIFFS and other female employees to work in isolated conditions late at night under his control.

The sexually harassing behavior was perpetrated by supervisors and included, but was not limited to the following: unwelcome touching, explicit sexual commentary and quid pro quo sexual harassment. One of Defendants’ supervisors JOSE VASQUEZ raped a female employee at the worksite. ABM INC supervisor JOSE VASQUEZ repeatedly hugged female employees, including INTERVENOR PLAINTIFFS from behind and groped their private parts with his hands. On several occasions, ABM INC supervisor JOSE VASQUEZ exposed himself and tried to force the female employees to touch him sexually. ABM INC supervisor JOSE VASQUEZ repeatedly subjected the female employees to leering, suggestive and propositioning language.

Supervisors offered female employees positions where they would drive a company vehicle and/or supervise employees in exchange for sex. Defendants failed to exercise reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly the sexually harassing behavior.

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Ken Kleven

Two female employees have filed sex discrimination complaints against the Montana-based Center for Mental Health.

In one complaint, Gail Baker claims that she was treated in a condescending manner by Executive Director Ken Kleven, who allegedly frequently referred to women as “little missy,” “little girly,” and “kiddo.”

Baker claims that the Center for Mental Health pays female employees lower wages than men for the same position and that women were treated “less favorably in terms and conditions of their employment as compared to men.”

A second employee, Kara Jensen, filed a complaint alleging that she was subjected to sex discrimination. 

According to the Great Falls Tribune, the center’s attorney, Rick Larson, “said the center maintains that it did not discriminate against Baker or Jensen.  ‘The center has nothing to hide in regards to the charges.’”

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Francesca Spero, a 51-year-old executive at Bad Boy Records, has filed a $12 million age discrimination lawsuit against Sean “P. Diddy” Combs after she was fired for allegedly being too old and replaced with a less experienced woman about 15 years younger than Spero.
 
According to NBC New York:

Spero says that she first met Combs, in 1988 and began working for him a decade later — during his “Puff Daddy” phase. She says that she helped sign new song writers, get music clearances for corporate endorsements, execute Bad Boy’s $38 million deal with Warner Brothers and produce the MTV reality show “Making the Band.”
 
Their partnership, however, began to fall apart two years ago when she underwent surgery to treat a hip misalignment, and he allegedly said she could no longer “run around” and earned too much money for “someone who could no longer keep up with his fast-paced lifestyle,” according to her lawsuit.

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John Leopold

Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold is being sued by a former employee for sexual harassment and retaliation.  Karla Hamner claims that Leopold made unwanted sexual advances toward her.  According to the complaint, during Hamner’s initial job interview, Leopold told her, “If you were single, I’d ask you out, because you just seem like you’re a lot of fun.”
 
Kamner also alleges that Leopold created a hostile work environment where, according to the complaint, “virtually all of the women who worked in the county executive’s office were terrified and terrorized by Leopold.”
 
The complaint mentions one incident where Leopold “abruptly stopped, turned toward Hamner and grabbed her by both of her upper arms, twisted her around so that she faced him and yelled into her face, ‘I want you to turn and face me, like this. And get your hair out of your face!’”
 
Hamner alleged that she was transferred to another county department and ultimately fired after she complained to her immediate supervisor about the alleged harassment.
 
According to the Baltimore Sun, “This is not the first time the unmarried 67-year-old Leopold has been accused of inappropriate conduct. Last year, he was accused of sexually harassing a state employee at the county headquarters, and an anonymous 911 caller also reported possible sexual activity in what turned out to be Leopold’s government-issued car. He was not charged with a crime in either case.”

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A federal appeals court upheld the previous jury verdict which awarded a black employee $65,000 for being subjected to racial discrimination and workplace bullying at Fiber Glass Systems LP, based in San Antonio, Texas.

During the trial, Carol Fuller testified that she encountered a hostile work environment as soon as she was transferred from her previous factory job to a job in the sales office.

Fuller claimed that a co-worker in the sales office, Patty Holmes, told her that she “didn’t like blacks…but would try to tolerate” Fuller.  Holmes allegedly would ask Fuller each morning why she came back to work, and she told Fuller not to answer the phones because callers were not used to hearing “a black or ethnic voice.”

Fuller alleged that her complaints to her supervisor, Dale Smith, only made the harassment worse.  Fuller said that she was excluded from office functions and was not invited out to lunch with the others.  Furthermore, Fuller described one incident where her boss, Dale Smith, stood behind her as she worked and made “gorilla gestures” while Holmes laughed.

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The Navy has announced that Cmdr. Fred Wilhelm, the commanding officer of the amphibious dock landing ship Gunston Hall was relieved of duty after an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, simple assault and conduct unbecoming an officer.

According to The Virginian-Pilot, “The incidents occurred both on and off duty during the ship’s recent six-month deployment off western Africa and the Mediterranean, which included four weeks assisting relief efforts after the Haiti earthquake.”

Wilhelm has been reassigned to administrative duties.

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Capt. Holly Graf

Earlier this year, a scathing Navy inspector general’s report about the abusive behavior of Capt. Holly Graf led to her removal as head of the missile cruiser U.S.S. Cowpens.
 
The IG report concluded that Graf violated Navy regulations “by demeaning, humiliating, publicly belittling and verbally assaulting…subordinates while in command of Cowpens.”
 
A crew member told the inspector general that Graf “creates an environment of fear and hostility [and] frequently humiliates and belittles watch standers by screaming at them with profanities in front of the Combat Information Center and bridge-watch teams.”
 
For example, Graf allegedly told officers and crewmembers the following:

“Take your goddam attitude and shove it up your f—ing ass and leave it there.”
“This is one of the reasons I hate you.”
“Get the f–k out of my stateroom.”
“The only words I want to hear out of your mouth are ‘Yes ma’am’ or ‘You’re correct, ma’am.’”

According to Time.com: 

Paul Coco, a 2002 Naval Academy graduate, served as a gunnery officer under Graf aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Winston S. Churchill from 2002 to 2004. “She would throw coffee cups at officers — ceramic, not foam,” he recalls, “spit in one officer’s face, throw binders and paperwork at people, slam doors.” The hostile work environment led to a gallows humor among the crew. “We all would joke that after Bush liberated Iraq, he would next liberate Churchill,” he says.
 
Prior to the IG probe’s release, the Navy had tapped Graf for a top job at the Pentagon following her Cowpens command. Now she’s being shuffled off to a Navy weapons lab outside the capital. “Her career,” an admiral says, “is over.”

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In 2006, Dr. Elizabeth Pritts of the UW-Madison fertility clinic accused the then director, Dr. Steven Lindheim, of sexual harassment. 

An investigative report conducted by The UW-Madison Equity and Diversity Resource Center conducted an investigation and released a report that, in the words of one university official, “paints a picture of a disturbing environment” where medical students and residents stopped working in the clinic because of the “open hostility.”

Dr. Steven Lindheim

According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the report uncovered the following findings:

-Lindheim had a sex toy in his office that other staff members could find. Lindheim said he kept the toy in his desk.
-Lindheim frequently gave back rubs to the mostly female staff; some of them liked it and others didn’t.
-Lindheim wore a surgical gown on which had been drawn breasts and pubic hair.
-Others told investigators they had concerns about Lindheim touching or rubbing patients’ legs.

Pritts received a $185,000 settlement from UW-Madison and left the fertility clinic.

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Maryam Sayigh, the former executive assistant of a popular New York photo studio CEO is suing her ex-boss for sexual harassment.